Hi there, The gathering was called by the Change Community in ABN AMRO. Folk I have been working with for one and half years crafting a chaordic space for the change agents and heros of the future n the bank. The evolving purpose of the change community is: To live, plant and support action towards and more meaningful and inspiring work/life.
We were ready to come out from under the radar. Our movement in the bank was strong enough, we felt we had a track record and credibility enough to move form underground to over ground. So we began design. Inspired by Larry in Toronto (thanks for the phone call) we designed a gathering of five simultaneous open spaces. Invitations by email, post cards sent to friends, posters all over the bank, invites over lunch. Word spread until we had 200+ signed up. We could fit no more in the room! Each open space hosted by a member of the Change Community who had sat in the fire of the Art of Hosting training. Hosted by bankers for bankers ... each to also host the spirit f the actions that emerged following the events ... Each Open Space was sponsored by a champion at the top of the bank ... roles were clarified early on. Each Open Space was designed to create communities of practice around specific issues ... Each open space is followed up two months later with a second open space again hosted by the change community host with the sponsor present and the actions teams ... I hosted the hosts and held the larger field. We opened as one group, played a bit to loosen and the challenged was dropped: we are the ones we are waiting for. Into the five strategic question groups: How can we unleash our pride in working for ABN AMRO? How can we enable a culture of sharing positive success stories at ABN AMRO? How can our managers become leaders and coaches? How can we create clear, meaningful and productive communication in all levels of ABN AMRO? How can we turn our most wacky ideas into positive actions? Each group got busy in space, designing their own futures with good vigour ... by the end of the day we had 16 action groups each with clear next steps and links to senior management to act as roadblock removers and supporters. Check with the medicine wheel - we are on fire. We then as the hosting team sat in circle and shed tears as we felt our closeness and the collective field we had been holding for the day. Our learning had been deep together and we had each stepped closer to our humaness ... outside the band the playing and the spirit of the bank had begun to dance ... Love Tim * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist